By Harris                                        S.B. No. 201

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the disposition of freshwater trout stamp fees.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 43.505(b), Parks and Wildlife Code, is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (b)  The stamp sale net receipts may be spent only for the

 1-7     purchase, rearing, and stocking of freshwater trout in this state

 1-8     [for any purposes authorized by Section 11.033 of this code and are

 1-9     hereby appropriated for such purposes].

1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.